Woe of the chosen

Chapter 5: Arrangements

   We make it to the restaurant, order a table for three, and then we start asking questions . "Hey Zeph, what do you know about Zeus?" I asked. He replies with, "To be completely honest with you. I've never actually been in contact with him. All I know is that he's one of the most powerful Gods if not the strongest. Also, why'd you call me Zeph?" I then immediately reply with, "Oh! That's because your name is weird and long. So I wanna just call you Zeph since it's shorter and easier to remember." Zeph nods and starts to think. Amelia then questions him and asks, "So if you have the power of Zeus does that mean you can beat anyone?" Zeph looks at her and blinks more times than I can count. He then says, "You guys beat me. Look, just because I have his powers does not automatically mean I can defeat anyone, and not only that, but I don't have much control over it yet. You'd be surprised how hard it is to maintain this power."

    Now that I think about it, he mainly used physical attacks to try to defeat us, but he only used one lightning attack which ironically enough was the reason he lost that fight. Amelia then questions me and asks, " Hey,how's your hand doing?" Now that she asks;I realize that I'm not in pain. I put my hand on the table to show it, and my hand looks normal. No burnt marks, no bleeding, my skin isn't falling off. Amelia's eyes widen and then looks at me. We make eye contact for a good minute or two without saying a word. She then asks me, "How is this even possible? Your hand has fully healed..?" Before I could say anything; Zeph grabs my wrist to take a look and asks me, "Didn't you hold my lightning bolt? How is your palm still intact?" He lets go of my wrist then proceeds to look at me. He gives me this death stare for some god damn reason. Why is he suspicious of me? What have I done? Even I don't know how to answer that. Amelia then asks me, "Pluto, if you don't want to tell us how, then that's completely fine, but we're just curious is all." I then reply with, "That's the thing! I don't know." Amelia looks away and Zeph is still staring at me. Before I could say anything, Zeph stands up and says, " Come outside. The both of you." Amelia and I look at each other and proceeded to follow Zeph outside.

    While we're making our way to exit this restaurant, Zeph takes a knife from one of the tables, and hides it in his pants. Why did he take a knife? What is he planning? It seems no one noticed him, but how odd. Anyways, we make it outside and Zeph takes out the knife. He then says, "Give me your arm."  I reply with, "Why?" He sighs and then in the blink of an eye he grabs my arm, cuts it with the knife. I squirm in discomfort and I exclaim, "WHAT THE HELL MAN?! WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!" Amelia tries to hit him with a dark,monochrome, sharp plant that she raised from the ground, but before she could, he simply pointed at my forearm and said, "Take a close look." Amelia stops her attack, and starts to look at my forearm. Her mouth drops, her eyes widen, and she gives me this look of shock and disbelief. She says, "Pluto..you're healing. Slowly, very slowly, but I can see it." I look at the cut myself, and what do you know? I am healing. Part of me is shocked, but another part of me feels like this is another Tuesday. Why's that? I look at both Amelia and Zephilious,  and I say, "Look, I have no idea what this is. I'm being completely honest. Why would I hide something like this?" Zeph then responds with, "Your lack of reaction says otherwise. What are you? WHO are you? Are you a Godlender?" Who does this guy think he is? Questioning me like he's some sort of man detective. I then look at Zeph's eyes and ask him in a serious tone, "I have no idea why I can do this. Why would I lie! What do I benefit from this?" Zeph gets right in front of my face and says, "I have no fucking clue, but you're not telling us something, and let me tell you that I hate liars. So spit it out already." This is about to get physical isn't it? I'm telling the truth. If he doesn't believe me then I'll have no choice but to defend myself. Amelia then tries to calm us down, but she knows it isn't gonna work. Both Zephilious and I start to clench our fists, but before we could do anything a tall, wide, old man with a cowboy hat, leather jacket, and leather pants steps between us out of nowhere and exclaims, "What's the problem?! You two having a fight in front of my damn restaurant?! Instead of fighting like a bunch of fucking pussies, why don't ya just talk it out LIKE NORMAL HUMAN BEINGS!!YA GOD DAMN DUMBASSES!!! It always ends like that when someone starts causing a ruckus. It's a pain in my ass."

Walter looks at me and all of a sudden, his eyes widen and his mouth opens from what I assume is fear. He steps back very slowly as his eyes make contact with mine. He points at me and yells, "D...D...DEVIL!!! ITS THE DEVIL!!! OH GODS NO!!!! THE DEVIL'S HERE!!!"

The devil? Me? What is he saying? I...I'm not a devil...I'm human, I'm just me. Is he...? Is he hallucinating? Why is he afraid of me?

Zephilious looks at me with confusion and before he can say anything, Amelia steps up and yells? "WHAT ARE YOU SAYING?! ARE YOU STUPID?! HE'S CLEARLY HUMAN!!"

Walter ignores Amelia as he continues to look into my eyes. He quickly clasps his hands together and begins to pray,

"Oh mighty Zeus..I pray that you get rid of the devil before me..I pray that you eradicate the wicked before me and lead me into a safe land far from any devils....a land where the wicked are gone and men like I, are safe..." Zephilious unclenches his fists and approaches the owner of the restaurant. He then asks, "Hey Mr, what's your name?" The owner replies with, "I..m-my name is...Walter... What's it to you?" Zeph replies with, "Well, I see that you pray to Zeus, and we'd like to learn more about him since we want to start getting into religion." So he's lying his way in, not bad at all Zephy. Amelia then comes up to me and says, "What's his deal? He called you the devil? Why's that?" I reply with, "I don't know...." As Zeph is speaking to Walter, a thunder storm starts to form on top of the restaurant. Everything starts to slow down. I'm getting déjà vu, it's as if I've experienced this before, but something's not right. Wait, why is Zephilious screaming in absolute pain and agony..? What's going on? I look at Amelia and she starts to form a barrier around us made out of Deciduous plants. Walter is down on his knees with hands up in air as if he's praising someone.

    The barrier closes, and through the little holes in between each branch I can see that the lightning starts to take the form of a pillar in the sky, just before I knew it. It slammed down into the ground and exploded. Destroying nearly everything that came into it's path. The Plants starts to disintegrate, and I can see Amelia's skin start to slowly fall off. The restaurant is completely gone, everything around us is filled with nothing but light blue. The electricity is burning my skin and flowing through my clothes, and Zephilious is knocked out cold. I can see Amelia's tears start to evaporate as they come out. Is this where I die? Is this the end? I'm scared. I don't wanna die. I don't want Amelia to die. If only I was a Godlender then I would've been able to protect all of you. My eyes start to close and just before they do. What appeared to be Black Flames, starts to engulf my entire body, and then I let out a screech of excruciating pain, and the flames explode all around me, and the shockwaves breaks the pillar of lightning into a thousand pieces until it vanishes into thin air. The Pillar left a giant crater in the ground, all of the people in the restaurant have been burned to a crisp and Walter is no where to be seen. I look at Amelia and immediately go check up on her. She's lying down on the floor practically lifeless. I yell, " AMELIA! AMELIA! NO NO NO!!! YOU'RE GONNA BE OKAY!! PLEASE STAY WITH ME!! JUST HANG ON!!!" Her entire left arm is completely black. Her neck has suffered some burns but not enough to seriously damage her. I check for a pulse and I sigh from relief. I say, "Oh good, you have a pulse. Just hang on for a bit." I sit down, and lay her head on my thigh. Shortly after that, I blacked out.